The impeachment of Alhaji Aminu Maigari as the president of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF on Thursday, may not end the crisis rocking the football house, as there is strong indication that some members of the board who have been the architect of the crisis must be shown the way out for peace to reign in Nigerian football.
A member of the board, who begged for anonymity, told Nigerian Pilot Sports after their meeting on Thursday that the crisis in NFF was far from over, unless the people that caused the problem alongside Maigari, are removed.
“What we have just done is removing the dog, whereas the dog masters are still around. If you look at the impeachment document we signed, some peoples name are not there, yet they are members of the board. We are 13 members of the board, although we are supposed to be 15, only eight signed Maigari’s impeachment notice. Where are the others? It shows that all is still not well in NFF.”
After the NFF executive board meeting on Thursday, where Maigari was impeached, the new NFF acting president, Mike Okeke Umeh said the board will meet very soon on how to correct the problems that plunged the football house into crisis.
“We want to correct the mistakes that made us to impeach Maigari. We are still going to meet on some of the nagging issues. We must put the football house in order by correcting certain problems that has led to the crisis.”
Nigerian Pilot Sports can report that four members who voted for Aminu Maigari to carry on were, Christopher Green, Emeka Inyama, Yusuf Ahmed ‘Fresh’. They were alleged to have been the brains behind the crisis that bedeviled NFF in recent times.
A communiqué issued after the meeting reads in part, “After thorough and exhaustive deliberations on the uncalled-for secrecy surrounding all financial dealings of the Federation and failure to call meeting of the Executive Committee for the past eight months, during which so many weighty decisions on Nigeria football had been taken by a small cabal within the Board, the Executive Committee passed a vote of no confidence on the NFF president, Alhaji Aminu Maigari.
“In view of the above, the committee approved the immediate dismissal of Alhaji Aminu Maigari, from the NFF executive committee on grounds of financial misappropriation, misapplication, and maladministration.
Acting president of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Mike Umeh, has exclusively said that he will lead the fight to rid Nigerian football of “all corrupt officers.”
Umeh, who took the reins following Maigari’s fall from grace, said the move to rid the Glass House of “individuals of questionable, is ongoing as we look to repair the damage done to Nigerian football.
“We want to assure Nigerians that we will not relent in adopting due process in showing corrupt officers of the NFF the way out.
“I can state through this medium without fear or favour that the procedure of kicking out individuals of questionable character is ongoing as we look to repair the damage done to Nigerian football.
“That is my immediate mandate. We are not small boys. We know what to do.” Umeh will preside over the affairs of the NFF, pending the composition of the new NFF Executive Committee after the elections of Tuesday, August 26, 2014.